Book of Remembrance

John Rothwell Banks

• Killed in action, Normandy 05/08/44. Buried in Bayeux War Cemetery.

Hector Ernest Bennett

• Killed in crash landing, Wiltshire 04/02/41

Joseph Ronald Bird

• Missing presumed killed on 58^th (bombing) operation 27/08/42

Geoffrey Booth

• Crew of Lancaster bomber JB527, crashed near Berlin 26/11/43
• JB527 – DER IM NOV. 1943 Abgeschossene Lancaster-Bomber
• Grave Information

John Keith Briers

• Fatally injured on Boxing Day 1941 whilst training to be a pilot.

Henry Shaw Brown

• Missing, presumed dead 18/02/44

Frank Bowers

• Killed in night operations bomber take off crash 27/07/44

Logie Watson Brown

• Missing in operation off Frisian Islands 25/10/41. Later presumed killed.
• http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Derbyshire/Allestree.html

Douglas James Bullivant

• Royal Navy Able Seaman reported missing 12/10/40. Presumed killed 14/09/44.

Frederick Ralph Percival Burgess

• Sergeant Pilot killed on active service 21/03/41. For detailed information click here.  
• http://www.hambo.org/kingscanterbury/view_man.php?id=68

William Buxton

• Coder, HMS Walney. Killed in action 08/11/42
• http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/48.html

Archibald Frank (Gratton) Clarke

• Major, Royal Indian Army Service Corps. Died on service 19/10/41

Cyril Douglas Cook

• Leading aircraftman, RAF. Killed by enemy action 07/03/43 in Tripoli
• http://twgpp.org/information.php?id=2191534

Maurice Henry Davis

• Trooper, 143^rd Royal Armoured Corps. Drowned in River Trent whilst taking part in a military exercise.

John Raymond Delaney

• Killed on duty as a dispatch rider.

Albert Dobson

• Sergeant Pilot killed whilst returning to base after a night time bombing attack over Syria 07/07/41.

William Dove

• Sergeant Pilot, 424 Squadron RAF. Killed in crash landing 02/05/43. Buried at Melbourne Cemetery.
• http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/254708-post63.html

Norman Dowdy

• Killed in action in Tunisia April 1943

Cecil Draper

• Trooper in the 2^nd Battalion Royal Tank Regiment. Killed in action, Middle East 21/11/41.

Harold Edward Dunn

•  Killed in flying accident in Cromerty, Scotland 28/06/45.

William Norman Eales

• Flight Lieutenant RAFVR Rhodesian Air Force. Killed Duisburg 23/12/43.

William Benjamin Eastwood

• Sergeant Pilot RAF, killed in action when Halifax bomber crashed 31/03/42.
• http://www.aircrewremembrancesociety.com/raf1942/3/blundenneil.html
•  http://ktsorens.tihlde.org/flyvrak/fuglan.html

Frank Elliott

• Sergeant RAF, killed in action.

Ernest Gordon Elwell

• Sub Lieutenant (Fleet Air Arm), HMS Illustrious, killed in flying accident 19/11/43.
• http://www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1943-11NOV.htm

Stanley Evans

• Flight Lieutenant (Pilot Officer) RAFVR, Lancaster Bomber Squadron. Killed as member of Pathfinder Force in operations over Nuremberg, Germany 31/03/44.
• http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2080374/EVANS

Alan Norman Feary

• Flight Sergeant 609 squadron Royal Air Force, shot down in the Battle of Britain 07/10/40.
• http://www.609wrsquadron.co.uk/Archives/Biographies/PDF_Files/Alan%20Feary.pdf
• http://daveg4otu.tripod.com/dorset/warmpics.html

Ronald Frearson

• Chief Petty Officer, Engine Room Artificer, Royal Navy HMS Egret. Died on service 14/07/44. Lived at 28 Buxton Road, Chaddesden.
• http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/529194-post117.html

Edward Garner

• Flight Sergent RAF (Pathfinder), shot down in Halifax bomber over Dusseldorf 25/05/43.
• http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2031548/GARNER

Kenneth Gaukroger

• Sergeant Rear Gunner RAF. Died 21/10/41 Suez.
• http://twgpp.org/information.php?id=2232154
• http://derbyshirewarmemorials.wikispaces.com/KENNETH+GAUKROGER
• http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2897043/GAUKROGER

George Muir Gee

• Sergeant Pilot RAFVR, killed in crash landing 14/01/42.
• http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/crashes1942.htm

Ronald Gee

• Flying Officer Navigator, RAFVR. Crashed at sea 06/03/44.

Norman Glew

• Squadron Leader, RAFVR, nicknamed “Sticky”. Killed in action in Brindisi, Italy 08/05/44.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aviators_by_nickname
• http://brew.clients.ch/PilotsG.htm
• http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2203538/GLEW

Harold Patrick Granger

• RAF, Prisoner of war, died in Japan 22/06/45. Japan surrendered 02/09/45.
• http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1814745/GRANGER

Roger Julius Hall

• Squadron Leader commanding 609 Squadron. Accounted for nine enemy planes around the South Coast of Britain.

Robert Gerald Hallam

John Frederick Harris

• RAF, killed in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) 28/08/43
• http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2684119/HARRIS

Edward Holmes

• Lance Corporal, RAMC. Killed by enemy action in Sheffield 13/12/40.
• http://ww2today.com/13th-december-1940-sheffield-blitzed

Kenneth Brian Howell

• Flight Sergeant RAFVR. Missing from operations over Duisburg, Germany 15/10/44. Later presumed killed.

Ernest James Ironmonger

• Flight Sergeant RAFVR, killed on operational flight over Germany 10/08/42.
• http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2033906/IRONMONGER

Sydney Wallace Johnson

• Sergeant Wireless Operator RAF, killed in France 14/06/40.
• http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2321139/JOHNSON
• http://forcedlanding.pagesperso-orange.fr/Commonwealth13.htm
• http://www.epibreren.com/ww2/raf/40_squadron.html

John Langley

• Telegraphist, Royal Navy. Missing in operations in Mediterranean 29/01/43, later presumed killed.

Maurice Gordon Lee

• Private, 2^nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters. Killed by a vehicle mine in Tel Aviv 01/03/47, aged 18. Attended Bemrose until 1944.
• http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1155625/LEE
• http://www.britishforcesinpalestine.org/events47.html

Peter Henry George Lees

• Flight Sergeant RAFVR. Missing in operations 15/08/44, later presumed killed.
• http://twgpp.org/information.php?id=2686274

Gordon Lester

• Sergeant, RAFVR. Killed over Luxembourg after raid on Wiesbaden 03/02/45.
• http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2726570/LESTER

Alfred James Lewsley

• Flight Lieutenant Royal Air Force. Missing after bomber raid in Germany on 04/04/45. Later presumed killed.

Patrick Douglas McClemont

• Flight Sergeant RAF bomber command. Killed on a night operation training flight at Kirmington, Lincolnshire 08/10/45. War in Europe ended 08/05/45. Buried close to Bemrose at Uttoxeter New Road Cemetery.
• http://home.cogeco.ca/~dswallow4/Individuals.htm – (go to last but one record)
• http://twgpp.org/information.php?id=3001067

Eric McKim

• Sergeant Pilot RAF, missing over Bay of Biscay 22/03/43 whilst on anti-submarine patrol.

Eric Mason

• Sergeant Wireless Operator and Air Gunner, RAF. Killed on first operational flight over Belgium 13/04/42.
• http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2777750/MASON

Francis Norman Matthews

• Corporal RAF, killed in enemy raid when aerodrome attacked 30/09/1944, Italy

J. Fredrick Mockridge 

• Sergeant RAF, killed in action

Maurice Rupert Moorley

• Flying officer instructor RAF
• Killed on active service 10/09/1942

Leonard Granville Moseley

• Flight Sergeant RAF
• Killed 06/02/1943

Arthur Gordon Mudd

• Sergeant Pilot RAF
• Killed whilst piloting Wellington Bomber, Egypt, March 1944

John Joseph Murphy

• Sergeant Flight Engineer, Royal Canadian Air Force 433 Squadron
• Missing from operations above Leipzig 20/02/1944, later pronounced dead

John Reginald Page

• Flight Sergeant RAF
• Killed flying accident over Norway 04/10/1946

William Parker

• Sergeant RAF
• Killed Monastir Tunisia 28/04/1943

Frances Peters

• Royal Air Force
• Killed on service 14/09/1944, Burton to Lichfield

William Hollingworth Poxon

• Coder, Royal Navy
• Lost in HMS Prince of Wales 10/12/1941

Arthur Donald Poyser

• RAF, killed in action

Richard Rawcliffe

• Sergeant (Observer) RAF
• Missing from anti-submarine operation 17/12/1942/. Later announced dead.

George Vernet Reeves

• Pilot 206 Squadron
• Killed while returning from operations 21/04/1941

Charles William Renshaw

• Trooper RAF
• Killed in action North West Europe July 1944

Maurice Henry Rudge

• Sub-contractor Royal Army Ordnance Corps
• Died in active service 29/07/1946

Donald John Samuel

• Seaman – Royal Navy, HMS Corvette “Picotee”
• HMS Corvette “Picotee” lost in action with all hands 12/08/1941

Trevor Tressler Smart

• Flying Officer Royal Air Force
• No 207 Squadron (Bomber Command)
• Missing in operation of Wesseling, near Cologne. Later presumed killed 22/23/ June 1944
• Awarded distinguished flying cross (immediate award) 19/20 May 1944
• “Flying Officer Smart, who has only four sorties to his credit, showed great courage, determination and exceptional airmanship in successfully bring the aircraft back home.”

Francis Melville Smith

• Flying Officer RAF Bomber Command
• Killed in Lancaster Bomber when aircraft below up, after having been damaged 07/07/1943

William Godfrey Soar

• Lieutenant Royal Artillery 6th Regiment 3rd Battery Heavy Anti Aircraft
• Died in Japanese Prison Camp Siam 11/11/1943

Wilfred Holmes Stapleford

• Captain Royal Army Medical Corps
• Died Berlin 13/10/1945

Alexander Bertram Stevenson

• Sergeant Air Gunner Royal Air Force
• Missing over Irish Sea 22/05/1943
• Later presumed killed

John Ernest Tooth

• Flight Sergeant Royal Air Force
• Missing 12/09/1944, later presumed dead

Leonard Webster Topham

• Private RAF
• Died on service 1942

James Henry Trott

• Captain Royal Artillery
• Died of wounds, Italy, 12/09/1944

Kenneth Turner

• Leading Aircraftsman Royal Air Force
• Lost at sea after ship travelling from UK to South Africa has been torpedoed 05/07/1941